Rosa parks was a women that today many people admire for standing up for her rights with much courage and will. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama to Rosa Louise McCauley. If you have heard about the Montgomery bus Boycott, then you must know that Rosa Parks started it all by refusing to give up her seat for a white man. Throughout her time, she has been made famous with her courage and determination to make all people created equal. Sadly, Rosa Parks died on October or 2005.
“Ah ha, hush that fuss everybody move to the back of the bus” Outkast
Autherine Lucy;
Autherine Lucy was born on October 5, 1929 in Alabama. She was the first African American to go to the University of Alabama in 1956, but once they found out she was black she was not allowed to attend their school. With help from lawyers, Autherine sued the University and the U.S Supreme court later ruled that she could attend the school. The people didn’t like her being allowed to go to this school, so they chanted racist things like “kill her!” and threw eggs at her. Police men took her off campus and told her not to go back because it was “unsafe” for her. So in the end the protesters got their way, and no black person had attended that University since. Autherine Lucy (b. 1929), African American civil rights pioneer. As quoted in I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker (1989). In February 1956, Lucy became the first African American student to integrate the University of Alabama. Riots broke out, and she was expelled after three days. Thirty-two years later, the university wrote her a letter notifying her that the expulsion had been revoked and she could re-enroll. Emmett Till; Emmett Till was born on July 28, 1941 in Chicago Illinois.When he was only 14 years old, he was brutally beaten when he was visiting his uncle in Mississippi.It all started when he whistled at a white married white women.Then the husband and step-son went out to find this boy and beat him to death. After he died, his mother insisted on having a public, open casket funeral to let everyone see how badly he was beaten. He had been beaten and had his eye gouged out before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire.He was found in that river three days later.Emmett Till died on August 28, 1955 at only 14 years old. Charlayne Hunter; Charlayne Hunter was born on Feb. 27, 1942 in South Carolina.She was a journalist and wrote many books in her time, like “New News Out of Africa” “In My Place” and “Maggies American Dream”She was also a chief corospodant for a TV network PBS. Not only that, she was the first African American reporter for “the new Yorker”Last, but not least, she won the Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists in 1986. Montgomery Bus Boycott; The Montgomery bus boycott was a very big event in history.This was when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus for a white man, so a huge bus boycott took place. This protest started in Dec. 1 1955 and ended in Dec. 20 1956. It ended up leading to the supreme court the decided Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses unconstitutional. Shotgun Houses; A shotgun house was a narrow, rectangular house that went back with many rooms that just kept going back.You could fit many people in one of these houses which were cheap and easy to build. They were most popular in the southern united states and some Alternate names include shotgun shack, shotgun hut, shotgun cottage, and railroad apartments. The Scottsboro Trials; The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro, Alabama during the 1930s, when nine black youths, ranging in age from twelve to nineteen, were falsely accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates.on March 25, 1931, on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis. On the train that day, catching an illegal (but common) ride on the freight train were the nine black youths, two white women, and a number of white youths.One of the two women on the train, Victoria Price, then claimed that she had been raped by several of the black youths, only because she had not paid for her fare on the train.There was four rounds of trials
Perceptions of Race in America:
An Oral Project
Rosa Parks;
Rosa parks was a women that today many people admire for standing up for her rights with much courage and will. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama to Rosa Louise McCauley. If you have heard about the Montgomery bus Boycott, then you must know that Rosa Parks started it all by refusing to give up her seat for a white man. Throughout her time, she has been made famous with her courage and determination to make all people created equal. Sadly, Rosa Parks died on October or 2005.
“Ah ha, hush that fuss everybody move to the back of the bus” Outkast
Autherine Lucy;
Autherine Lucy was born on October 5, 1929 in Alabama. She was the first African American to go to the University of Alabama in 1956, but once they found out she was black she was not allowed to attend their school. With help from lawyers, Autherine sued the University and the U.S Supreme court later ruled that she could attend the school. The people didn’t like her being allowed to go to this school, so they chanted racist things like “kill her!” and threw eggs at her. Police men took her off campus and told her not to go back because it was “unsafe” for her. So in the end the protesters got their way, and no black person had attended that University since.
Autherine Lucy (b. 1929), African American civil rights pioneer. As quoted in I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker (1989). In February 1956, Lucy became the first African American student to integrate the University of Alabama. Riots broke out, and she was expelled after three days. Thirty-two years later, the university wrote her a letter notifying her that the expulsion had been revoked and she could re-enroll.
Emmett Till;
Emmett Till was born on July 28, 1941 in Chicago Illinois. When he was only 14 years old, he was brutally beaten when he was visiting his uncle in Mississippi. It all started when he whistled at a white married white women. Then the husband and step-son went out to find this boy and beat him to death. After he died, his mother insisted on having a public, open casket funeral to let everyone see how badly he was beaten. He had been beaten and had his eye gouged out before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire. He was found in that river three days later. Emmett Till died on August 28, 1955 at only 14 years old.
Charlayne Hunter;
Charlayne Hunter was born on Feb. 27, 1942 in South Carolina. She was a journalist and wrote many books in her time, like “New News Out of Africa” “In My Place” and “Maggies American Dream” She was also a chief corospodant for a TV network PBS. Not only that, she was the first African American reporter for “the new Yorker” Last, but not least, she won the Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists in 1986.
Montgomery Bus Boycott;
The Montgomery bus boycott was a very big event in history. This was when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus for a white man, so a huge bus boycott took place. This protest started in Dec. 1 1955 and ended in Dec. 20 1956. It ended up leading to the supreme court the decided Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses unconstitutional.
Shotgun Houses;
A shotgun house was a narrow, rectangular house that went back with many rooms that just kept going back. You could fit many people in one of these houses which were cheap and easy to build. They were most popular in the southern united states and some Alternate names include shotgun shack, shotgun hut, shotgun cottage, and railroad apartments.
The Scottsboro Trials;
The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro, Alabama during the 1930s, when nine black youths, ranging in age from twelve to nineteen, were falsely accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. on March 25, 1931, on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis. On the train that day, catching an illegal (but common) ride on the freight train were the nine black youths, two white women, and a number of white youths. One of the two women on the train, Victoria Price, then claimed that she had been raped by several of the black youths, only because she had not paid for her fare on the train. There was four rounds of trials